Asp.Net MVC how to get view to generate PDF

Question

I would like to call an action on a controller. Have the controller get the data from the model. The view then runs and generates a PDF. The only example I have found i

Answer 1

Very Late Reply, but I found that the following URL helped me get my results quickly :

(Ensure that you reference to the iTextSharp DLL by making use of the Nuget Packages)

https://www.aspsnippets.com/Articles/Export-Grid-Html-Table-data-from-database-to-PDF-file-using-iTextSharp-in-ASPNet-MVC.aspx

EDIT This is the code I used to make the table look a little different(This is landscape as well:

public string GetCssForPdf()
        {
            string css = "";

            css = "th, td" +
                   "{" +
                       "font-family:Arial; font-size:10px" +
                    "}";

            return css;
        }

[HttpPost]
        [ValidateInput(false)]
        public FileResult Export(string GridHtml)
        {
            string webgridstyle = GetCssForPdf();

            string exportData = String.Format("{0}{1}", "", GridHtml);
            var bytes = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(exportData);

            using (var input = new MemoryStream(bytes))
            {
                var output = new MemoryStream();
                var document = new iTextSharp.text.Document(PageSize.A4, 50, 50, 50, 50);
                var writer = PdfWriter.GetInstance(document, output);

                document.SetPageSize(iTextSharp.text.PageSize.A4.Rotate());
                Font headerFont = FontFactory.GetFont("Verdana", 10);
                Font rowfont = FontFactory.GetFont("Verdana", 10);

                writer.CloseStream = false;
                document.Open();

                var xmlWorker = iTextSharp.tool.xml.XMLWorkerHelper.GetInstance();
                xmlWorker.ParseXHtml(writer, document, input, System.Text.Encoding.UTF8);
                document.Close();
                output.Position = 0;

                return File(output, "application/pdf", "Pipeline_Report.pdf");

                //return new FileStreamResult(output, "application/pdf");
            }
        }

Hope this helps someone else as well.